Waning
Crescent ♌ Leo
Moon phase for
Image credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio.
Waning Crescent 6% illuminated
Waning Crescent is the lunar phase on . Seen from Earth, illuminated fraction of the Moon surface is 6% and getting smaller. The 27 days old Moon is in ♌ Leo.
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Moon phase and lunation details
5 days after Last Quarter
Previous main lunar phase is the Last Quarter before 5 days on 25 August 2092 at 00:32.
Moonrise and moonset
Moon rises after midnight to early morning and sets in the afternoon. It is visible in the early morning low to the east.
Moon in ♌ Leo
Moon is passing about ∠9° of ♌ Leo tropical zodiac sector.
Apparent angular diameter ∠1813"
Lunar disc appears visually 4.8% narrower than solar disc. Moon and Sun apparent angular diameters are ∠1813" and ∠1901".
Harvest Moon after 16 days
Next Full Moon is the Harvest Moon of September 2092 after 16 days on 15 September 2092 at 20:33.
Upcoming main Moon phases
- New Moon in Virgo ♍ on 1 September 2092 at 22:14
- First Quarter in Sagittarius ♐ on 8 September 2092 at 20:15
- Full Moon in Pisces ♓ on 15 September 2092 at 20:33
- Last Quarter in Gemini ♊ on 23 September 2092 at 19:05
Neap tide
There is low ocean tide on this date. Sun and Moon gravitational forces are not aligned, but meet at big angle, so their combined tidal force is weak.
Lunation 1145 / 2098
The Moon is 27 days old. Earth's natural satellite is moving from the second to the final part of current synodic month. This is lunation 1145 of Meeus index or 2098 from Brown series.
Synodic month length 29.51 days
The length of the lunation is 29 days, 12 hours and 20 minutes. It is 1 hour and 19 minutes longer than the next lunation's length. The lengths of the following synodic months are going to decreasing with the true anomaly getting closer to the value it has at the point of New Moon at perigee (∠0° or ∠360°).
Lunation length shorter than mean
The length of the current synodic month is 24 minutes shorter than the mean synodic month length. It is 5 hours and 45 minutes longer compared to 21st century's shortest synodic month length.
Lunar orbit position on
True anomaly ∠246.7°
At the beginning of the lunation cycle the true anomaly is ∠246.7°. At the beginning of next synodic month the true anomaly is going to be ∠282.2°.
Moon after apogee
4 days after point of apogee on 25 August 2092 at 18:58 in ♊ Gemini. The lunar orbit is getting narrow, while the Moon is moving towards the Earth. It will keep this direction over the next 8 days, until the Moon reaches the point of next perigee on 8 September 2092 at 07:44 in ♐ Sagittarius.
Distance to Moon 395 449 km
The Moon is 395 449 km (245 721 mi) away from Earth and getting closer over the next 8 days until the point perigee when Earth-Moon distance is going to be 369 784 km (229 773 mi).
Moon in ascending node
Moon is in ascending node in ♌ Leo at 21:39 crossing the ecliptic from South to North to meet descending node 13 days later on 12 September 2092 at 21:06 in ♒ Aquarius.
New draconic month
At 21:39 the Moon completes the previous draconic month and enters the new one.
Moon after northern standstill
2 days since the previous standstill on 28 August 2092 at 04:01 in ♋ Cancer when the Moon has reached North declination of ∠20.103°, the lunar orbit is extending southward over the next 10 days to face maximum declination of ∠-20.164° at the point of next southern standstill on 10 September 2092 at 11:11 in ♑ Capricorn.
Syzygy in 2 days
In 2 days on 1 September 2092 at 22:14 in ♍ Virgo the Moon is going to be in a New Moon geocentric conjunction with the Sun and thus forming the next Sun-Moon-Earth syzygy alignment.
